>If you start a box so it's at least one pixel in the Column Heading band .. and end it at least one pixel into the column footer band .. it should stretch from top to bottom.

Yeah, one would think. :) I've got the top of the box in the Column Header band and the bottom of the box in the Column Footer band, but the box is still down and to the left of where it oughta be.

If I include the entire box in the Detail band, it's lined-up correctly, but I'm getting an entire box (including horizontal lines) around each detail item. I want the box to stretch from top to bottom, giving me vertical lines on either side and horizontal lines only at the top of the column and the bottom of the column. To get that, I've gotta stretch the box above and below the Detail band, and when I do that, the whole box moves down and to the left of the data.

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>>Hi all,
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>>I've got a report with seven columns. The data is wrapping from column to column just fine, but I'm having a problem putting vertical lines between the columns to make it more readable. I've got boxes around the column headings in the Column Header band, and that's coming out just fine, but when I try to put boxes around the data in the Detail band, they're never in the right place. The box covers the entire column from top to bottom, but it's down and to the left. Any tips on how to make the box/lines come out where they're supposed to be?
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>>Thanks!
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>>John